It monitors the headlines on the popular news portal, the Drudge Report, which gets about 30,000,000 page views per day.

Since it’s not a financial news site, gauging the number of times a finance story grabs the top spot provides an indication of when Main Street is truly concerned about Wall Street.

Interestingly enough, when financial headlines appear most frequently – i.e. when Main Street’s most afraid – stocks tend to rally.

In fact, the frequency of financial news stories spiked dramatically right before the market bottomed in March 2009.

And wouldn’t you know? In recent weeks, the number of finance-related Drudge headlines hit the highest levels since the throes of the recession.

Now, if you’re reluctant to trust these sentiment indicators, just remember this: the underlying market fundamentals point to higher prices, too…

Stocks are reasonably priced, trading for about 15 times earnings… corporate profits continue to expand at a double-digit clip… and mergers and acquisitions activity is heating up, with the total value of deals jumping by 71% in the first half of this year.

Bottom line: Shake off the fear-ridden headlines in the face of solid market fundamentals. That just means it’s time for us to be greedy.

Every time President Trump rails against the media, he adds millions in market capitalization to The New York Times Company (NYT). So buying a few call options on NYT is virtually certain to pay off. If you’ve never traded options, fear not. I asked my senior analyst, Martin Hutchinson, to describe options so that a kindergartener would understand.